Arlesey High Street [Z1306/2/5/1]
Saturday 17th July: Private Sidney Papworth, 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, writing to his sister Mrs Taylor states he was very pleased with the paper sent him with the photo of his brother Percy, prisoner-of-war, and he requested her to call and see Mrs Ernest Dear, wife of Private Ernest Dear of the Beds Regiment and ask if she has heard from him lately “as I have not seen or heard anything of him … and I begin to think he is wounded or killed. Let me know in your next letter”.
We might state that Mrs Dear has heard nothing further about her husband only that she had a card from the War Office about three weeks ago, from which she could gather no definite information regarding his fate(1).
Source: Biggleswade Chronicle 20th August 1915
(1) Sadly Ernest Dear was killed in action on 11th July in the artillery barrage following the explosion of a German mine near Hill 60. He was 40 years old and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres.
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